Carrier



Aug. 18, 1936. J, F MARTlN 2,051,265

' CARRIER Filed Sept. 16, 1935 Patented Aug. 18, 1936 UNITED sTATEs PATENT OFFICE i 4 Claims.

This invention relates to carriers of pocket and table types.

This invention has utility when incorporated in suspended collapsible devices in their out-of-use positions and distensible to provide receivers, and further openable to form a ledge or platform.

Referring to the drawing:

Fig. 1 is a view of an embodiment of the invention in collapsed position suspended from the back of the front seat of an automobile;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary end elevation from the right of Fig. l, with dotted line showing of the device partially distended;

Fig. 3 is a View similar to Fig. 2, with the device opened to provide a table; and

Fig. 4 is a section on the line IV-IV, Fig. 1, showing the device in pocket forming or carrier distension.

Motor vehicle is shown with seat back I having rigid rear section 2 with clearance rearwardly therefrom and above the vehicle floor. Accordingly, it is desirable to mount the device of this disclosure upon the rear of automobile front seats, preferably clear of interference with robe or foot rails. To this end bars 3 connected by rods 4, 5, provide the support Yor main mounting member. Fabric 6 between the bars and rods provides a shield or cover for the upholstery on the seat back, against being marred by the assembly or use of the device.

The supporting member takes the load of the carrier or device, which may be by means of screws 'I through the upper portions of the bars 3 and into the seat rear section 2. Such assembly is desirable with top hooks 8 in anchoring gripping Contact with the section 2. Due to the usual angle or rearward inclination for automobile seat backs, supplemental anchoring strength may be had by brackets 9 lower down upon the bars 3, with screws 'I' therethrough into the section 2. There is thus a firm holding of the support against the seat back.

From the rod 4 at each bar 3 there is intermediate link II. From the rod 5 at each bar 3 there is link I2 thus located near lower termini I3 of the bars 3. These links II, I2, have spaced pivotal connection at their free ends with opposing side member portions I4. Bottom I5 is carried by and between the lower sho-rter links I2 and has pivotal connections I6 to the rod 5 and pivotal connections Il to rod I3 providing the pivotal connection between the free ends of the links I2. Remote from the rod I8, rib I9 extends between the portions I4 in completing a U-shaped binding frame for opposing side or member 20 (Cl. 22A-29) having pivotal connections 2| with the rod I 8. These pivotal connections for the bottom and side provide form-holding reinforcement for the carrier when partially distended to provide a pocket.

With the links I I slightly longer than the links 5 I 2, space 22 between the members is wider at the top than at the bottom. There is a range of approximately parallel movement in such opening out for an automatically adjustable collapsing pocket which may have ends 23 of fabric mounted l0 by extensible flexible members 24, 25, extending from rods 4, 5, to eyes 26 on the side 20.

Catch 2l' between a link II and a bar 3 may serve to hold the carrier collapsed into out-of-use position. Upon release of the catch, the opposl5 ing side may be pulled away from the support and there is thus opened up the pocket 22 to receive and adjust to suit case 28 or other article of luggage. Such luggage as against the bottom I5, causes such bottom to incline from the support- 20 ing bars 3 and thus automatically reduces the expansion of the pocket. Accordingly the carrier is thus at all times in its minimum dimension for the load it is carrying.

By swinging the free ends of the links I2 past 25 the pocket maximum width and upward toward the bars 3, the pocket portion again collapses and the opposing member 28 approaches horizontal or table-forming position as a ledge with the rod I8 against or toward the bars 3 just below 30 the rod 4 as an inner region of support, while the links II extend slightly downwardly therefrom for mid-table stability. The links and members spaced therebetween approximate a parallelogram.

Slots 29 and wingnuts 30 for the assembly of the links II with the table portions I4, permit of adjustment for table-leveling as may be desired, especially for different makes of cars, as to adapt to seat back inclination acceptable to one using the table or ledge as a support or carrier.

There is thus quite a range of flexibility in adaptation and use for the variable pocket and adjustable ledge collapsible device, with featuresV of strength and utility throughout the range of adjustments.

This range of flexibility for mounting in use may even extend to the mounting itself as adapted to receive the collapsed device similarly to the form of seat back adapted to receive a folding seat.

What is claimed and it is desired to secure by United. States Letters Patent is:

1. A carrier embodying opposite ends, each including a substantially vertically extending sup- 5 Cil Vporting-member,V an intermediate link therefrom, a'terminal link therefrom,jand an opposing side member pivotally'co-nnected to theV free ends Yof @said links, said terminal link being swingable in anV arc toward the'intermediate linkV adjacent the Y Ysupporting Vmember and bringing the opposing memberinto position substantially at right angles Y 1 tothe supporting member, with one end of said opposing member substantially abutting said supporting member so that the opposing member prof vides Va level deck. Y Y' Y Y Y V2.V A carrier embodying opposite ends, each in- Ycludinga substantially vertically extending supporting member, an intermediate link therefrom,

a terminal link therefrom, and an opposing rigidv iiat side member pivotally Vconnected. to the free v ends of said links, said terminal link being swingzontal position, whereby the extent of opening isV Y able from downwardly of the supporting member to outwardly therefrom in providing a pocket ofVY *greaterY capacity in the spacing of theropposing member fromrthe supporting -memberasrthe Y intermediate link moves upwardly toward horidetermined by the VVbulk of ,the-load. Y

' 3. A carrier embodying opposite ends,V each in- Lcluding Ya substantially vertically extending Vsupintermediate linkV providingV supplemental holding for the Side member. Y Y Y Y 4. A carrier embodying opposite ends, each'in* cluding a substantially vertically extending sup'- porting member,V an intermediate link therefrom, a terminal link therefrom, and an-opposingrside Y member pivotally connected to the'ireeV endssof 15 said links, said side member being positioned by swinging the free end of the terminal link upward toward the supporting member to locate the side memberrto extend outwardly from the supporting vmember and approximately horizontal, saidYVin-'ZO termediate link providing supplemental holding for the side member, andY means for adjusting connection of the intermediate link' with the'side member to adjust the side member as a table.

JACoY F. MARTIN. l 

